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echo: matzdobre
to: ED HULETT
from: WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
date: 2007-03-08 20:57:00
subject: Archives..

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> Ross Cassell -> Ed Hulett wrote:
->  RC> Hello Ed!
-> 
->  RC> 08 Mar 07 20:03, you wrote to me:
-> 
->  WC>>>> Fucking retard.
-> 
->  RC>>> Is the sissy biker dude getting upset?
-> 
->  EH>> It appears he's upset that you would archive his (and his
buddies')
->  EH>> lies.
-> 
->  RC> Well liars do tend to forget what they say, so its my duty to
remind them.
-> 
-> Heh heh heh...
-> 
->  RC> Between all 6 of them, I posted 16142 archived messages, Wayne
thinks I
->  RC> fabricated every single one of them.
-> 
-> A rather chatty bunch.
-> 
-> Wayne is under the mistaken idea that you have as much time on your
hands as he
-> does.
-> 
->  RC> The archive process is automated, a program called ftrack scans my
->  RC> message base automatically, I primarily use it to clean up my
netmail
->  RC> folder of robot messages and to archive old netmails off for safe
keeping.
-> 
->  RC> But it can and does scan the regular message base, here is an
example
->  RC> from Waynes portion of the cfg file.
-> 
->  RC> Scandir: "$c:\fidonet\msgs\matzdobr"
->  RC>    Mask: "Wayne Chirnside" * * * * +g
->  RC>  Action: Move "$c:\fidonet\golded\wayne\wayne"
-> 
->  RC> Scans Matzdobre message base file, using attributes in mask, kinda
like
->  RC> a cron setup, its from name, to name, from address, to address, msg
->  RC> attributes and age. The +g tells ftrack to process messages that
are
->  RC> older than the number of days I specify, therefore all messages
written
->  RC> by the from name older than days get touched.
-> 
->  RC> The $ specifies the message base type, in this case squish. Scan
the
->  RC> squish message base and then move processed messages to the squish
->  RC> message base I specified.
-> 
->  RC> All this is done on my reading node, not on the mailhub..
-> 
->  RC> I then use a utility written by a guy named Gerry Danen that reads
a
->  RC> Squish message base and creates html files from the messages.
-> 
->  RC> Its really quite neat and is very similiar to how the messages are
done
->  RC> on fidonet.sensation.com or whatever the url is supposed to be for
that
->  RC> site.
-> 
->  RC> I dont have the html conversion and uploading automated yet, not
sure if
->  RC> I am going to, I figure updating it monthly ought to work.
-> 
-> Keep up the good work.
-> 
-> Ed
-> 
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